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Christmas Eve!

This is me, Christmas 1976, shortly after I had my first paying radio station gig. My brother-in-law Marc is in the background…

… and this was what I was reacting to. A beautiful, old Zenith console tube radio that my brother Jeff gave me. He traded an enlarger for it. (Back in the age of analog photography there were these little things called negatives and to make a print you had to… oh, never mind.) Years later, I had it refinished and restored.

The radio was one of the last made before war production took over, so it was 35 years old on that Christmas Day, which was… 35 years ago?? Yike! I’m not going to think about that and instead I’ll go get some ‘nog.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Will there be Tintin fever or failure in America?

Personally, I don’t think Steven Spielberg was the right talent to bring Tintin — who is only a couple of years younger than Mickey Mouse — to the big screen. But it’s too late now, because ready or not, America, Tintin is coming to a movie theater near you for Christmas. Last week, Tom Ashbrook, who apparently has a soft spot for the intrepid boy reporter, devoted an installment of his radio show On Point to the world of Tintin.

[audio:http://audio.wbur.org/storage/2011/12/onpoint_1216_2.mp3|titles=On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Tintin!]

One wacky neighbor and his wacky deal!

Last year, when I was in New York, I commented in this post that “I have been in unit 11L of the Apthorp, and unit 11K appears to be undergoing renovations, so presumably it will soon have occupants.” So who moved into unit 11K? This guy.

Louis C.K. has a deal going where, for only five bucks, you can buy his new hour-long video, Live at the Beacon Theater. Do it through PayPal and you’ll see this download screen.

Louis is doing this on the honor system, and he’s trusting everybody to not distribute the video freely. So far, it’s been going all right.

House mouse

In other exciting weekend news from home, after the Comcast salesmen left I caught a mouse in my office, in the finished half of the basement. I used one of these Victor live traps. They work well and I recommend them. I let the little guy go in the woods near the house, and if a deer mouse can look scared, he looked scared.

Sunday follow-up: OK, let’s make that two mice.
Monday follow-up: Looks like Mr. and Mrs. Mouse were it. Trap still set with bait intact.